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What's the thoughts on this? I've medium short springs or firm long springs. Will upping my fork travel from 100mm to 130 (spring change) kill the feel of my NRS or will it just help compensate for my weight nicely? At the moment I feel like I'm crashing through the fork travel fairly early on (though I never bottom out due to adjusting my oil levels to ramp up the air void pressure right at the end). I just don't want a soggy sloppy feeling head angle on a fairly XCish frame.
I'd say it's not ideal but it will work. Mine was good at 115 so 130 isn't going to make it a complete barge.
I had u-turn revs on mine for a while and sometimes on climbs I would forget/not notice I had them wound out to 130. Funny really, on a bike that originally came with 80mm sids! Considering its a short travel xc race framet is amazing how fast you can go down/over roots and rocks with a good fork on the front before the back end really starts jumping around. Although if you run any sag at all on it (you shouldn't btw) it will become well wandery on climbs. In the end I got some reba teams and spacer'ed them down to 105mm which seems a happy medium.
Why wouldnt you run any sag?
Why wouldnt you run any sag?
'cos that's what it says in the manual. No Resonance System, 50psi negative pressure and all that. More by accident than anything else I have managed to get mine to juuuust stay locked out until I bounce on a rock/root up a climb, so there is some sort of rudimentary uphill compliance which I quite like but not really any bob or wallow. Or maybe my pedalling in circles is improving.
Possibly why it feels quite capable for 80mm cos you use all 80mm when you hit something rather than being 20mm into it when you sit on the bike.
BTW tinsy, my NRS (well, xtc team) is your old one, and it is still going very well indeed. 😀 At what age do you reckon it will become 'retro'?
I'll give it a shot, worth a try. I normally run no sag on the rear, with just the right pressures I can get a really nice fluid rear end without notable bob which is nice, and it feels hardtaily the rest of the time. Good for me!
Julian, I have never had a Giant bike of any kind.. But I see what you mean now, I thought you meant no sag on the forks. Would need some on the forks especially if your overforking the frame a bit.
Not sure about the Giants, but I overforked an 100mm travel Stumpjumper and it felt great to me.
sorry tinsy, I confused your name with the guy i bought it from last year on the classifieds here.
I also slightly overforked (by 15mm) an old (horst link) scott genius once, and it became a right hoot to ride.
on a bike that originally came with 80mm sids!
just felt the need to throw in that they were specced with 100mm forks in the southern hemispher.
so 100-130 not as big a jump as 80-130.....
Being a hefty chap and tending to rely heavily on last-minute front brake I worry that I might push the frame beyond its capabilities. We'll find out soon!